Month: August 2014

Huiqing Xu, NU in China, Summer 2014 After spending these several weeks in Beijing, I finally understand what hot and humid weather truly feels like. Stepping outside for just five minutes can leave you drenched in sweat. After enduring weeks of this weather, my friends and I decided to go to a waterpark. Not just any

Joseph Hsieh, Public Health in China, Summer 2014 Food takes center stage in China. In fact, the large variety of food available in Beijing was one reason I embarked on this study abroad. I experienced much of Beijing’s culture through my stomach. However, in addition to culture, food is also a major public health topic in

Chloe Harrington, Public Health in China, Summer 2014 I literally have 20 minutes until I am kicked out of my room here at Beida, and I wanted to save this last post for reflection on my time here. As I write this final blog post from China, it is with a heavy heart; by that I

Chloe Harrington, Public Health in China, Summer 2014 This post will be devoted to the various hiking and outdoors trips that I have made over the summer. The first was hiking the Great Wall. We drove about 2 hours away from campus to a less-touristy section of the Great Wall. This section still had a

Jeffrey Bilik, NU in China, Summer 2014 If there’s one thing I can recommend to do in Beijing on your own, it’s to wander out and find as much as you can. The city is full of layers, and every neighborhood can be a different world into itself. A thirty minute peek through Beijing’s central

Jeffrey Bilik, NU in China, Summer 2014 Over the one week break between the two class sessions in our class, a few of us decided to visit Nanjing, Suzhou, and Qingdao. We stayed at hostels – from a 1930’s Republican style building in Nanjing with a roaming puppy and rabbit, to one built out old